5.1Removing Audit Vault Agent Software

Use the following procedure to uninstall the Oracle Audit Vault Agent software:

Use the Audit Vault Control (AVCTL) commands documented in Oracle Audit Vault Administrator's Guide to stop all collectors (stop_collector) running on the agent, and then to stop the agent itself (stop_agent).

Use the AVCTL stop_oc4j command to stop the OC4J agent. For example:

avctl stop_oc4j

For Linux and UNIX-based systems, and Windows systems, uninstall the Oracle Audit Vault Agent software by running the following command in the home directory of the Agent. For example:

For Linux and UNIX-based systems:

$ $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin/runInstaller

For Windows systems:

<ORACLE_HOME>\oui\bin\setup.exe

As an alternative for Windows systems, start Oracle Universal Installer: From the Start menu, select Programs, then Oracle Agent - HOME_NAME, then Oracle Installation Products, and then Universal Installer.

For Linux and UNIX-based systems, and Windows systems, the Welcome window for Oracle Universal Installer appears.

Click Deinstall Products to bring up the Oracle Inventory screen.

Select the Oracle home directory and the products that you want to remove by selecting the desired check boxes, then click Remove. The Confirmation window appears. Click Yes to remove the selected components.

After the Audit Vault Agent components are removed from your system, the Oracle Inventory page appears without the removed components. Click Close to close the Oracle Inventory page. Click Cancel to exit Oracle Universal Installer. Click Yes to confirm that you want to exit.

Clean up the old Oracle directories.

On systems where Oracle Audit Vault Agent is the only Oracle software installed, navigate to the directory for oracle, and remove the directory.

For Linux and UNIX-based systems, use the rm -r command.

Otherwise, delete the Oracle Audit Vault Agent home.

For Linux and UNIX-based systems, issue the following command to confirm there is no other Oracle home installed.

In rare situations, you might want to correct serious system problems by completely removing Oracle Audit Vault Agent components manually from the computer without first deinstalling Oracle Audit Vault Agent with Oracle Universal Installer. Do this only as a last resort, and only if you want to remove all Oracle Audit Vault Agent components from your system.

Oracle Universal Installer does not delete all services created by Oracle Net Configuration Assistant. In addition, it does not delete several other registry keys. You must remove any existing registry keys manually by following the instructions in one of the following sections: